Black band at bottom lip of shell gives game away for the brown-lipped snail
I found this beautifully coloured snail atop a sand dune on Ventry beach in Co Kerry. Is it native or did it float ashore on ...
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Memoir of a Snail second look review: Adam Elliot’s dark animation finds hope in a downward spiral
In his trademark ‘chunky wonky’ stop-motion animation style, Adam Elliot again finds beauty in unbearable bleakness with Grace, a troubled hoarder of snail memorabilia.
Cool Critters: A trout with feathers – the American Dipper
The American dipper, a drab-looking bird no larger than a robin, is a splashy rarity: a songbird that swims and even walks underwater. This round-bodied gray bird with short wings and a stubby tail is ...
Full list of North East National Trust activities this February half term
From planting snowdrops at Wallington to building your own bird box and bird feeder at Crook Hall Gardens, here's everything ...
Rupert Everett on Why He Started Writing, Being Dazzled by Julie Andrews, and What He Thinks of the Kardashians
In advance of his new collection of short stories, ‘The American No,’ Everett opens up about finding the humor in rejection, ...
Jurassic fossil from China rewrites history of bird evolution
Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...
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Moth makes its flat wings appear 3D to trick predators
Scientists discovered a moth that appears 3D despite having flat wings. Tiny structures on its wings reflect light that ...
Who has Oval walk-in privileges?
Oval Office walk-in privileges, the most coveted sign of power in the West Wing, were notably loose in President DONALD TRUMP ...
150-million-year-old fossil shows early bird diversification in the Jurassic Period
The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward ...
Mount Pleasant company connects Lowcountry students to nature through field trips and summer camps
The Mount Pleasant-based eco-tour company and foundation Coastal Expeditions holds after-school programs, summer camps and ...
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A humpback whale briefly swallows kayaker in Chilean Patagonia — and it's all captured on camera
A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. It happened in ...
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Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird
Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...